Interesting I got a letter last week with an offer to subscribe to Forbes. I laughed and quickly tossed it. My impression of Forbes is almost entirely formed from their coverage of SCO and Linux and it is not a good impression. This article just furthers my prejudice.
The word SCO is in danger of becoming a synonym for sue. Some thing like "Oh yeah, well I am going to SCO your ass off, buddy" Sorta like google became a standardized verb.
Opt Out has always been a sore spot for me as a while back my daughter clicked on a Opt Out link and was presented with a Porn site that took over the complete desktop and used a variety of Javascript techniques to prevent you from exiting - I had to finally powered down.
Now a spammer using this technique should definately do time.
Your right spammers survice on ignorance and carelessness which will always be sufficient supply.
Providing opting out capability should not be a mitigating factor.
Even if you a spammer provides an "Opt Out" button you should never use it. An "Opt Out" button mearly means that:
The e-mail address is valid (sort of a confirm delivery ticket)
You do not filter e-mail
You are not so inundated with spam that you actually pay attention to it.
Qualities that all spammers are looking for. Your e-mail is golden and will be use for some other "advertiseing campaign" or traded with their buddies.
However let me chime in also, were I work we just released a web based control system that monitors and controls a large remote vessel for the Navy. The system continuously monitors vessel roll, pitch, ballast levels, mooring tensions, intrusion detection, etc.
This vessel is research platform is unattended for long periods of time. If an alarm condition is encountered the system starts a generator fires up a long haul net connection and sends data and images and dispatches alarm e-mails and phone messages.
I think we can use the term "mission critical" for this application. It is written with Perl and uses Apache sitting on top of Linux.
Oh and by the way we got to do this job because of a similar successful system that monitors and provide critical control for a research submersible.
We have about 15k lines of code libraries that are well written, modular and easy to maintain. Perl's facilities promote packaging your design into small self-contained objects and features like built in (and fast) reg exp, symbolic references, tie, fast (near C like) I/O, etc are fantastic tools that speed development.
If SCO can request a copy of AIX which is very propriety can IBM likewise request a copy of SCO propriety source code to look for insertions of Linux or other OSS code?
Or can someone else file a suit against SCO and make such a request?
"Based", has strong connotations that Linux's foundation or beginnings were proprietery Unix. It is similar in look and feel but only SCO is making the unproven claim the Linux is "based" on Unix. AIX and HP-UX can be accurately described as being "based" on Unix.
As an example if Linux windows manager is designed to look and behave as Windows it is characterized as Windows like or Clones the Window environment but you would not use the terminology that it is "Windows Based".
I still do not understand how SCO can threaten companies with a copyright infringement without first testing their claim in court.
If this is legal then what would stops Joe Schmoe from claiming they had input in some book on the top best seller list and start walking around threating BN and Amazon or anyone who bought the book. Why not since there is nothing to lose and maybe they will pay off.
Basically they are saying that the added information of delineating what portions of System V are in the body of Linux open code has some sort of intrinsic value?
I have maintained both large programs in C and in Perl - and from my own experience I would rather maintain Perl any day over C assuming all things are equal (ie design quality and style).
With Perl there are less intrinsic variable types and variable types are obvious from the prefix. Perl lends itself nicely to componentization, hence CPAN and large programs if designed properly ended up as a collection of smaller managable modules - which is what good design strives for the breaking down of a large problem into many smaller more managable ones.
Most people confuse reg exp with Perl. The at one time encountered a wild ass reg exp and recoiled in fear and loathing - and form an opinion from that point forward that Perl is unreadable.
However to really complete the picture Boies and company will probably file a counter-suit (and they may even have a point) claiming they were misled on extent of SCO ownership of the Unix IP.
and the that usually triggers the mouth of Saron^H^H^H^HSCO to make some outlandish claim of ownership, new legal threat or twisted analysis of the US constitution and what it means to be American. Stay tuned...
Yes that was my thought also. But what can one expect from piece of software that requires you jump thru a convoluted set of hoops (establishing a dsn) just import a csv file?
The first North American should have stayed in Asia and fixed the problems there before risking that land bridge stuff and Newton should have been focusing on real current problems like poverty and hunger rather than pondering why things fall down.
I will never Opt-out a list because these scum^h^h^h businessmen will take you off their list and sell or trade your e-mail to other spammer. An e-mail of someone who opt-out's is valuable because it says
My office has a mirrored window and has provided me with a great opportunity to view and examine a variety of birds (both rare and common) up real close (both dead and stunned). The ground below my window is littered with bird remains. The local feral cat has caught on though.
I say outlaw mirrored window before outlawing wind turbines.
If one where to calculate the evironmental damage cause by the production of the steel for such a grid it probably far exceed the protection to said birds.
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Interesting I got a letter last week with an offer to subscribe to Forbes. I laughed and quickly tossed it. My impression of Forbes is almost entirely formed from their coverage of SCO and Linux and it is not a good impression. This article just furthers my prejudice.
The word SCO is in danger of becoming a synonym for sue. Some thing like "Oh yeah, well I am going to SCO your ass off, buddy" Sorta like google became a standardized verb.
get lost in the quagmire of lists, arrays, scalars, references, etc.
uh? Care to differentiate between lists and arrays? Or are you trying to spread a little FUD to make it sound more complicated then it is.
Explain how using and referencing extra dimensional data types (list and hashes) are different in Python.
if you want Perl in Win32 you pretty much have to go with ActiveState whereas Python.org has a Win32 specific distribution.
What is wrong with Activestate? Activestate is Perl's "Win32 specific distributition". Don't really see the difference.
Opt Out has always been a sore spot for me as a while back my daughter clicked on a Opt Out link and was presented with a Porn site that took over the complete desktop and used a variety of Javascript techniques to prevent you from exiting - I had to finally powered down.
Now a spammer using this technique should definately do time.
Your right spammers survice on ignorance and carelessness which will always be sufficient supply.
Providing opting out capability should not be a mitigating factor.
Even if you a spammer provides an "Opt Out" button you should never use it. An "Opt Out" button mearly means that:
The e-mail address is valid (sort of a confirm delivery ticket)
You do not filter e-mail
You are not so inundated with spam that you actually pay attention to it.
Qualities that all spammers are looking for. Your e-mail is golden and will be use for some other "advertiseing campaign" or traded with their buddies.
You should know better than to repy to an AC.
However let me chime in also, were I work we just released a web based control system that monitors and controls a large remote vessel for the Navy. The system continuously monitors vessel roll, pitch, ballast levels, mooring tensions, intrusion detection, etc.
This vessel is research platform is unattended for long periods of time. If an alarm condition is encountered the system starts a generator fires up a long haul net connection and sends data and images and dispatches alarm e-mails and phone messages.
I think we can use the term "mission critical" for this application. It is written with Perl and uses Apache sitting on top of Linux.
Oh and by the way we got to do this job because of a similar successful system that monitors and provide critical control for a research submersible.
We have about 15k lines of code libraries that are well written, modular and easy to maintain. Perl's facilities promote packaging your design into small self-contained objects and features like built in (and fast) reg exp, symbolic references, tie, fast (near C like) I/O, etc are fantastic tools that speed development.
If SCO can request a copy of AIX which is very propriety can IBM likewise request a copy of SCO propriety source code to look for insertions of Linux or other OSS code?
Or can someone else file a suit against SCO and make such a request?
Fair is fair right
"Based", has strong connotations that Linux's foundation or beginnings were proprietery Unix. It is similar in look and feel but only SCO is making the unproven claim the Linux is "based" on Unix. AIX and HP-UX can be accurately described as being "based" on Unix.
As an example if Linux windows manager is designed to look and behave as Windows it is characterized as Windows like or Clones the Window environment but you would not use the terminology that it is
"Windows Based".
You gotta love how Forbes always get it wrong. This Forbes article by Reed Stevenson
quotes
SCO also warned companies that they must pay to use Linux, which is based on the proprietary Unix operating system, or face litigation.
Emphasis mine of course.
Where does Forbes hire their journalist from? The local high school.
I still do not understand how SCO can threaten companies with a copyright infringement without first testing their claim in court.
If this is legal then what would stops Joe Schmoe from claiming they had input in some book on the top best seller list and start walking around threating BN and Amazon or anyone who bought the book. Why not since there is nothing to lose and maybe they will pay off.
This has been their fall back position all along.
Basically they are saying that the added information of delineating what portions of System V are in the body of Linux open code has some sort of intrinsic value?
Seems a judge would see thru this one.
This statement gives the impression that SCO is company on relative par with Google.
I would say that the CEO position at SCO is equivalent to a Googgle entry level marketing manager.
Why Python here is a better Benchmark showing Perl 3 time faster.
I have maintained both large programs in C and in Perl - and from my own experience I would rather maintain Perl any day over C assuming all things are equal (ie design quality and style).
With Perl there are less intrinsic variable types and variable types are obvious from the prefix. Perl lends itself nicely to componentization, hence CPAN and large programs if designed properly ended up as a collection of smaller managable modules - which is what good design strives for the breaking down of a large problem into many smaller more managable ones.
Most people confuse reg exp with Perl. The at one time encountered a wild ass reg exp and recoiled in fear and loathing - and form an opinion from that point forward that Perl is unreadable.
In fact inevitable.
However to really complete the picture Boies and company will probably file a counter-suit (and they may even have a point) claiming they were misled on extent of SCO ownership of the Unix IP.
and the that usually triggers the mouth of Saron^H^H^H^HSCO to make some outlandish claim of ownership, new legal threat or twisted analysis of the US constitution and what it means to be American. Stay tuned...
Yes that was my thought also. But what can one expect from piece of software that requires you jump thru a convoluted set of hoops (establishing a dsn) just import a csv file?
In my wife's small business the only obstacle to going to a linux desktop is vender tools such as UPS worldship and Stamps.com, etc.
Assuming Hatch has offspring he/she could work at Novell.
Or maybe they could work on Hatch's patented Self-Destructiong Computer DRM Protection invention that he came up with a while back.
Oh yes indeed
The first North American should have stayed in Asia and fixed the problems there before risking that land bridge stuff and Newton should have been focusing on real current problems like poverty and hunger rather than pondering why things fall down.
The e-mail adddress is valid
The message slipped thru the filters
And the e-mail owner reads their e-mail
No no no it is the accent that really matters and gets the point across.
My office has a mirrored window and has provided me with a great opportunity to view and examine a variety of birds (both rare and common) up real close (both dead and stunned). The ground below my window is littered with bird remains. The local feral cat has caught on though.
I say outlaw mirrored window before outlawing wind turbines.
I sure californians have considered this.
If one where to calculate the evironmental damage cause by the production of the steel for such a grid it probably far exceed the protection to said birds.