So for $80 Billion the Koreans get a wired infrastructure and we (the US that is) spends $87 Billion on the Iraq mess. Sheessh.
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Recent Press Release from, SCOX
LINDON, Utah, Nov 05, 2003/PRNewswire-FirstCall via Comtex/ -- The SCO(R) Group (SCO) , the owner of the UNIX operating system, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride, will deliver a keynote address at the Enterprise IT Week/Computer Digital Expo (CDXPO) conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, November 18 at 5:00 p.m. The conference and keynote will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
In his address titled "There's No Free Lunch -- Or Free Linux," McBride will present his perspectives on the prospects of free industries, SCO's suit against IBM, and why intellectual property must be protected in a digital age.
"The Internet created -- and creatively destroyed -- great wealth. It also created a culture legitimizing intellectual property theft," said McBride. "When you defend intellectual property, you speak an unpleasant truth. People don't like to hear unpleasant truths. The alternative to this fight, however, is the death of an industry and thousands of jobs lost."
McBride will also explore how the information technology industry - software, hardware, networking and services -- depends on money passing from one hand to another, asserting that the livelihood of engineers and developers rests on paid models, even as those developers donate time to free projects such as Linux. McBride will lay out his assertion that without paid software, there would be little or no free software. At the conclusion of his keynote, McBride will be available for media questions.
McBride's keynote will be followed by a Town Hall discussion moderated by Jack Powers, conference chairman of Enterprise IT Week and director of the International Informatics Institute...
What is the "Enterprise IT Week/Computer Digital Expo (CDXPO) conference"? Is it important?
Why would they invite McBride to give him a platform from which to hurl his dispatches from the surreal and serial random threats? Comic relief?
Amazing images - I know i have seen them before but they never cease to amaze and inspire and how remind how small we and at the same time how significant life on earth is when it can rise from a single cell to a more advanced lifeform that are able to peer back into the abyss and wonder WTF.
I currently pay $62/mnth or more than $700/yr for slow 128/768 kbs dsl. Typical ips costs are around $20/mnth so I am paying around $500/yr for the cable plant. Seeing how cable has a long life time the $1400 seems like a very good investiment.
From review of the facts it appears that SCO case has the merits of the green river killers defense in court. However the only thing that has concerned me in this debacle is that SCO's stock price has been nothing but buoyant.
Now this week it looks like the price is beginning to head towards its future target. If the past is any clue I am sure we can expect a McBride public release anytime now.
Mr Lyons is now sounding like a reporting instead of a puppet (or perhaps a SCO investor).
The best cut is:
Oddly enough, on Nov. 11, SCO Executive Vice President Christopher Sontag complained to Forbes about IBM's decision to send subpoenas to investors and analysts who supported SCO. Sontag called the move "an attempt to bully and intimidate" and said IBM was engaged in "legal gamesmanship."
So why didn't Sontag mention that, uh, SCO itself was about to target Torvalds and Stallman with subpoenas? SCO's spokesman says Sontag and Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive, did not know that SCO's lawyers were planning the move.
The CEO and Vice-President did not know what their lawyers were up to!? Well I guess it is a clue to who is running the show.
This new (11/13) article has a decidely different tune from Mr Lyons.
Mr Lyons is now sounding like a reporting instead of a puppet (or perhaps a SCO investor).
The best cut is:
Oddly enough, on Nov. 11, SCO Executive Vice President Christopher Sontag complained to Forbes about IBM's decision to send subpoenas to investors and analysts who supported SCO. Sontag called the move "an attempt to bully and intimidate" and said IBM was engaged in "legal gamesmanship."
So why didn't Sontag mention that, uh, SCO itself was about to target Torvalds and Stallman with subpoenas? SCO's spokesman says Sontag and Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive, did not know that SCO's lawyers were planning the move.
The CEO and Vice-President did not know what their lawyers were up to!? Well I guess it is a clue to who is running the show.
Since our patent system is archaic and in the need of a overhaul I think IBM's motivation here might be to secure a defensive patent so that if they deploy said system than some yahoo, sensing deep pockets, does not come out of the woodwork try to collect a huge licencing fee.
I am sure MS wish they would have filed for a patent for extending their own browser. I would not doubt that it never occurred to them that such an obvious next step was patentable.
How far would $87 Billion gone towards development of a research outpost on the Moon?
I wish we had leaders that are looking up and beyond and not try to right personal vendettes at the expense or our future.
And BTW If deficits are o.k., which is what I have been hearing lately, why not go into hock for something for something with vision and with real lasting value.
Or how about a regionals and thereby reducing the overhead of participating for smaller less well financed teams? And then they could have the
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! The D a r p a SuperBowl of Autonomous Vehicle Racing... Hot Smart Vehicles Hot Bikini Clad Woman Cold Beer Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
But I reminded of a Gary Larson's cartoon, where there are four panes one with a rattlesnake in the top left hand corner, a puffed-up puffer fish in the top right hand corner, a mad cat in the bottom left hand corner, and finally a wierdo wearing a trench coat, with a boot on his head, a child's pool floaty thing around his middle and carrying a bazooka and the caption reads: "How Nature Says, Stay Away"
I love the early Dilbert. I use to think my experience in corporate america was unique until I started reading Mr Adams strip - it was than I realized that my experiences were very similar to other peoples - either that or Scott Adams worked in the same building that I did.
I am sure there are those in the mega-corp world would see this as an example why you need to use Microsoft,Oracle, etc. because going with a smaller startup company could leave you stranded. Just a thought.
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So for $80 Billion the Koreans get a wired infrastructure and we (the US that is) spends $87 Billion on the Iraq mess. Sheessh.
Recent Press Release from, SCOX
/PRNewswire-FirstCall via Comtex/ -- The SCO(R) Group (SCO) , the owner of the UNIX operating system, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride, will deliver a keynote address at the Enterprise IT Week/Computer Digital Expo (CDXPO) conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, November 18 at 5:00 p.m. The conference and keynote will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
LINDON, Utah, Nov 05, 2003
In his address titled "There's No Free Lunch -- Or Free Linux," McBride will present his perspectives on the prospects of free industries, SCO's suit against IBM, and why intellectual property must be protected in a digital age.
"The Internet created -- and creatively destroyed -- great wealth. It also created a culture legitimizing intellectual property theft," said McBride. "When you defend intellectual property, you speak an unpleasant truth. People don't like to hear unpleasant truths. The alternative to this fight, however, is the death of an industry and thousands of jobs lost."
McBride will also explore how the information technology industry - software, hardware, networking and services -- depends on money passing from one hand to another, asserting that the livelihood of engineers and developers rests on paid models, even as those developers donate time to free projects such as Linux. McBride will lay out his assertion that without paid software, there would be little or no free software. At the conclusion of his keynote, McBride will be available for media questions.
McBride's keynote will be followed by a Town Hall discussion moderated by Jack Powers, conference chairman of Enterprise IT Week and director of the International Informatics Institute...
What is the "Enterprise IT Week/Computer Digital Expo (CDXPO) conference"? Is it important?
Why would they invite McBride to give him a platform from which to hurl his dispatches
from the surreal and serial random threats? Comic relief?
Linux is more like a wonderful independent film that has great devoted followers, but is not quite mainstream.
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You mean like the Blair Witch Project?
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
Linux and Mozilla customers get 5%
is it reekall or reckall?
Amazing images - I know i have seen them before but they never cease to amaze and inspire and how remind how small we and at the same time how significant life on earth is when it can rise from a single cell to a more advanced lifeform that are able to peer back into the abyss and wonder WTF.
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
Linux and Mozilla customers get 5%
I currently pay $62/mnth or more than $700/yr for slow 128/768 kbs dsl. Typical ips costs are around $20/mnth so I am paying around $500/yr for the cable plant. Seeing how cable has a long life time the $1400 seems like a very good investiment.
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
Mozilla and Linux customers get 5%
Results 1-15 of about 126572 containing "microsoft sucks"
Results 1-15 of about 132328 containing "linux sucks"
It appears Linux sucks more (just marginally mind you) according to MSN.
Some like it Hotter Stuff
Linux and Mozilla customers get 5% off.
Great! maybe than we can afford it.
From review of the facts it appears that SCO case has the merits of the green river killers defense in court. However the only thing that has concerned me in this debacle is that SCO's stock price has been nothing but buoyant.
Now this week it looks like the price is beginning to head towards its future target. If the past is any clue I am sure we can expect a McBride public release anytime now.
Hot Sauce and gourmet stuff
Mozilla and Linux customers get 5%
I think putting money on SCO suing anybody probably is good bet.
Sounds like Daniel Lyons sold his SCO stock yesterday...
You can have it your way. Just go to your preferences and select to exclude Caldera stories.
Mr Lyons is now sounding like a reporting instead of a puppet (or perhaps a SCO investor).
The best cut is:
Oddly enough, on Nov. 11, SCO Executive Vice President Christopher Sontag complained to Forbes about IBM's decision to send subpoenas to investors and analysts who supported SCO. Sontag called the move "an attempt to bully and intimidate" and said IBM was engaged in "legal gamesmanship."
So why didn't Sontag mention that, uh, SCO itself was about to target Torvalds and Stallman with subpoenas? SCO's spokesman says Sontag and Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive, did not know that SCO's lawyers were planning the move.
The CEO and Vice-President did not know what their lawyers were up to!? Well I guess it is a clue to who is running the show.
This new (11/13) article has a decidely different tune from Mr Lyons.
Mr Lyons is now sounding like a reporting instead of a puppet (or perhaps a SCO investor).
The best cut is:
Oddly enough, on Nov. 11, SCO Executive Vice President Christopher Sontag complained to Forbes about IBM's decision to send subpoenas to investors and analysts who supported SCO. Sontag called the move "an attempt to bully and intimidate" and said IBM was engaged in "legal gamesmanship."
So why didn't Sontag mention that, uh, SCO itself was about to target Torvalds and Stallman with subpoenas? SCO's spokesman says Sontag and Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive, did not know that SCO's lawyers were planning the move.
The CEO and Vice-President did not know what their lawyers were up to!? Well I guess it is a clue to who is running the show.
Since our patent system is archaic and in the need of a overhaul I think IBM's motivation here might be to secure a defensive patent so that if they deploy said system than some yahoo, sensing deep pockets, does not come out of the woodwork try to collect a huge licencing fee.
I am sure MS wish they would have filed for a patent for extending their own browser. I would not doubt that it never occurred to them that such an obvious next step was patentable.
How far would $87 Billion gone towards development of a research outpost on the Moon?
I wish we had leaders that are looking up and beyond and not try to right personal vendettes at the expense or our future.
And BTW If deficits are o.k., which is what I have been hearing lately, why not go into hock for something for something with vision and with real lasting value.
...two people in a car drive around endlessly...
Sounds like a job for the undead.
Do I detect a bitter msft owner
Or how about a regionals and thereby reducing the overhead of participating for smaller less well financed teams? And then they could have the
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
The D a r p a SuperBowl of Autonomous Vehicle Racing... Hot Smart Vehicles Hot Bikini Clad Woman Cold Beer
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
Serving up html is one thing do a full phrase seach is another
Schweet! I have an unlimited number of win9x copies now
:)
Schweet! with that and a buck fifty you can now get yourself a cup of joe
From the header
almost everything can be done in several different ways
I guess imitation is the finest form of flattery but I think they might be violating perl's IP here.
I have the same thought.
But I reminded of a Gary Larson's cartoon, where there are four panes one with a rattlesnake in the top left hand corner, a puffed-up puffer fish in the top right hand corner, a mad cat in the bottom left hand corner, and finally a wierdo wearing a trench coat, with a boot on his head, a child's
pool floaty thing around his middle and carrying a bazooka and the caption reads: "How Nature Says, Stay Away"
This I think applies to SCO.
I love the early Dilbert. I use to think my experience in corporate america was unique until I started reading Mr Adams strip - it was than I realized that my experiences were very similar to other peoples - either that or Scott Adams worked in the same building that I did.
I am sure there are those in the mega-corp world would see this as an example why you need to use Microsoft,Oracle, etc. because going with a smaller startup company could leave you stranded. Just a thought.