Even if they learn anything... and now created any product.
What benefit will it bring them? Who will buy their enhanced product?
Even if they made the worlds biggest kick @rse product after acquired discovery?
Answer: Nobody - They have alienated a significant number of IT professionals.
Paraphrasing:
"Patents and copyrights are what you use against enemies, contracts are what you use against friends"
Lets _not_ do business.
Just equalising the balance..
Exactly how will SCO win some legal victories?
NVL - ?
IBM - ?
DC - ?
AZ - ?
And if there is substance, would that prove a reasonable ownership case or highlite a defect in the legal system?
Interesting speculation, but IMO hypothetical.
The hurt to MSFT is the fact that this has pushed the ambivalent open source supporters (do some linux, do some windows) off the fence on one side and it is not theirs.
Moral: Transparent & cheap PR, back fires.
Can't believe nobody has got the significance of this, and the number of modded posts trivializing this issue.
Mod me down at your peril.
This represented a significant issue in meso-american culture.
It is the last Venus transit pair in the Mayan/Toltec calendar i.e. the beginning of the end.
Historically this would have the next eight years would represent a period of extremely escalated ritual violence that puts most classical cultures to shame.
The transit of 1518-1526 to the priesthood (assigned to Quetzalcoatl) involved someone wearing a feathered hat - Hernan Cortez who, partly due to his recognized deity status, managed to grab more gold and slaughter more innocents than any colonial invader in history. They got it right but misinterpreted the consequences.
The date 13.0.0.0.0; Tzolkin: 4 Ahau; Haab: 3 Kankin; Night Lord: 9 is the solstice after the second transit (in 8 years after the final venus transit - starting now) represents the end of the Mayan calendar. This is very much based on this date. Just FYI for all you astronomy buffs. The meso-american astronomy is only out by ~40s on predications of the moons movement over 1000 years. Pretty damn good if you don't have an electronic computer.
Me - personally - during the transit? - Well grabbing a few license agreements & EULAs from some avaricious megalomaniac software companies. Applying libations (personally), and rendering such agreement to ashes. Reading out the voodoo driver source - maybe..
Burning a few black candles protectively around my favorite distro. Imagining said companies tied to a stone altar and having their _hearts_ ripped out.
Sorry 'bout the chest pains in Utah.. Personal responsibility as to what boards you belong to and what your company does.
Never mess with heavy geeks software & hippies that have played with too much DnD. It doesn't take to try to steal the software they have written. You don't have to be killed too many times by The Great Gygax, 25th level warrior-mage with the sword of soul stealing to believe in magic.
Magic is way more tangible and believable than some current legal proceeding...
The 2012 EOW websites have way more twisted and sustainable logic than the 2K EOW ones, proficient. http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk.
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Even if they learn anything... and now created any product. What benefit will it bring them? Who will buy their enhanced product? Even if they made the worlds biggest kick @rse product after acquired discovery? Answer: Nobody - They have alienated a significant number of IT professionals. Paraphrasing: "Patents and copyrights are what you use against enemies, contracts are what you use against friends" Lets _not_ do business.
You've read the $echo, right?
Just equalising the balance.. Exactly how will SCO win some legal victories? NVL - ? IBM - ? DC - ? AZ - ? And if there is substance, would that prove a reasonable ownership case or highlite a defect in the legal system? Interesting speculation, but IMO hypothetical. The hurt to MSFT is the fact that this has pushed the ambivalent open source supporters (do some linux, do some windows) off the fence on one side and it is not theirs. Moral: Transparent & cheap PR, back fires.
Can't believe nobody has got the significance of this, and the number of modded posts trivializing this issue.
Mod me down at your peril.
This represented a significant issue in meso-american culture.
It is the last Venus transit pair in the Mayan/Toltec calendar i.e. the beginning of the end.
Historically this would have the next eight years would represent a period of extremely escalated ritual violence that puts most classical cultures to shame.
The transit of 1518-1526 to the priesthood (assigned to Quetzalcoatl) involved someone wearing a feathered hat - Hernan Cortez who, partly due to his recognized deity status, managed to grab more gold and slaughter more innocents than any colonial invader in history. They got it right but misinterpreted the consequences.
The date 13.0.0.0.0; Tzolkin: 4 Ahau; Haab: 3 Kankin; Night Lord: 9 is the solstice after the second transit (in 8 years after the final venus transit - starting now) represents the end of the Mayan calendar. This is very much based on this date. Just FYI for all you astronomy buffs. The meso-american astronomy is only out by ~40s on predications of the moons movement over 1000 years. Pretty damn good if you don't have an electronic computer.
Me - personally - during the transit? - Well grabbing a few license agreements & EULAs from some avaricious megalomaniac software companies. Applying libations (personally), and rendering such agreement to ashes. Reading out the voodoo driver source - maybe..
Burning a few black candles protectively around my favorite distro. Imagining said companies tied to a stone altar and having their _hearts_ ripped out.
Sorry 'bout the chest pains in Utah.. Personal responsibility as to what boards you belong to and what your company does.
Never mess with heavy geeks software & hippies that have played with too much DnD. It doesn't take to try to steal the software they have written. You don't have to be killed too many times by The Great Gygax, 25th level warrior-mage with the sword of soul stealing to believe in magic.
Magic is way more tangible and believable than some current legal proceeding...
The 2012 EOW websites have way more twisted and sustainable logic than the 2K EOW ones, proficient. http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk.
Enjoy June 8, 2004 05:13
I for one welcome our new octopus overlords...