On the other hand, if SCO loses, it will send a strong message to the world: "Stay away from anything GPL, or you'll find your proprietary code taken away from you.
SCO is not swirling down the toilet because they dabbled with an Open Source project. They are drowning because Linux is devalueing their product and in no way represents a compatible product with anything else they have to offer. They toyed with Linux out of desperation and it is quit obvious their intentions were not alturistic and yes they are scumbags.
I deal with this monster everyday and there is very little publicity about this contract. There needs to be more horror stories out in the press. NMCI forces MS on everything that touches that friggen network and all other Operating Systems are considered "legacy".
The Navy/Marine corp are launching a large scale contract (NMCI) that restricts all Navy IT to MS and MS solutions.
This contract locks down the network to only NMCI managed systems (MS only). If there are existing systems that cannot run under windows than you have to apply for a "legacy system" exception and pay extra for no service.
This one size fits all approach is short sighted and foolish. The upper echelon has yet to catch on that the network is the backbone or the infrastructure that enables an ever increasing plethora of monitoring systems, data acquisition and control systems, collabration and communication mechanisms, etc.
As more and more devices become Web enabled the Navy has effectively locked itself out in the cold and crawled in bed with built in obsolesce - not to mentioned left itself vulnerable to an attack or virus that would spead like wild fire in a homogeneous network.
I work for a Navy research lab and we use Linux, Perl, C, Apache, Mozilla, Gnome, Perl/Tk, GnuPlot, etc almost exclusively for our control and monitoring systems. We have had no difficulty controlling Opto22 devices, GPIB, RS422, R485, and one-wire devices. The only windows we use is on the desktop which is unfortunately mandated (see NMCI).
If you need real-time look into QNX.
BTW we operate what is probably the deepest running webserver. We have a vehicle monitoring system that is controlled via a Linux/Apache machine setting at depth reporting topside via fiber connection. This system controls power reports temperatures, pressures, inclination, depth, smoke, leak, etc.
You are forgetting the Novell development. It looks like SCO has no footing for sue anyone.
Also the question comes down to, are they claiming copyright, trademark, patent rights or trade secrets violation? SCO keeps changing the claim which cause me to believe they grasping at straws.
Reloaded was interesting film for special effects but the plot is lacking. It is easy to write a seemingly complex plot if you are not constrained by having to make sense and story line contraditions just add to the mystic. No doubt aspiring intellects will spend more cpu cycles debating various apsects of the plot and dialog than the original authors did.
Their "justice" system, giving justice just for rich white men The source of your information is... oh yes i forgot you saw the movie.
Their violency and their wars They do teach history in the EU don't they? Or has it been "revised".
Their constitution and your point is...
Their hypocrisy and their stupidity...and even the colo(u)rful language they've brutally raped. So you must be French. If so please remember we have a few thousand Americans buried in French soil defending the land you could not.
(Disclaimer: No - I'm neither British nor Canadian. I do live in the EU, though) You sound envious...
...that an out-of-state retailer is obligated to collect tax on sales to California customers if it has representatives operating in the state who repair or service property bought from the retailer; it has an ownership interest in a California business; or it sells the same products under the same name as the California business.
This only effects the big boys that have a physical presence in California. Interesting this give the ma and pa small e-commerce sites an advantage.
The emergence of Open Source Software phenomena is an interesting and hopeful commentary on humanity.
I think it can best be explained by Malsow pyramid or hierarchy of needs. Those toward the top of pyramid have an increasing desire to create. Also OSS provides a way to create without an artifical "leadership" or power structures that dominate almost all our other areas of living.
Also, the invention of the internet provided the basic infrastructure for like minded people to get together and create something greater than they could themselves providing a big payoff and providing a sense of community and friendship.
Yes, printers are mostly throw away these days. Also, notice that most (all?) printer manufactures have at any given time two dozen current models each which uses a different cartridge! And the printer you bought yesterday is now obsolete and the new models are just different and do not provide any descernable enhancements. It seems to me that it would alot easier to support a several printer models instead of several dozen. I think HP is the winner in this category.
In addition, I wish somebody would come up with a standardized cost-per-page printer metric, much like you find on kitchen appliances for energy consumption.
I don't worry about man "playing god" but I do worry about humans acquiring technology before we are culturely advanced enough to reduce the possibility of wiping the human specicies of the map.
For example, suppose nuclear energy was discovered 50 years earlier in human history. There is a good chance that we would have destroyed the earth in one of the great wars of the last century.
It does not take alot of imagination to think all sorts of devious uses of custom life. What would a Saddam do if the technology was in his grasp.
You can't impose American free market orthodoxy on a country in this stage of development
No you are not going to create a new Kansas in the heartland of Iraq but it is possible to standup a reasonable representive democratic government. I present Germany, Japan, and Italy as examples where democracy and self-rule was instituted after the chaos of war.
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Can IBM or others reciprocate by requesting to "audit" the current SCO source to look for instances of GPL code.
Get it right o.k.
/. is atrocous....
shesshhh spelling on
Perhaps McBribe might wish to trade his pinstrip for one of these
On the other hand, if SCO loses, it will send a strong message to the world: "Stay away from anything GPL, or you'll find your proprietary code taken away from you.
SCO is not swirling down the toilet because they dabbled with an Open Source project. They are drowning because Linux is devalueing their product and in no way represents a compatible product with anything else they have to offer. They toyed with Linux out of desperation and it is quit obvious their intentions were not alturistic and yes they are scumbags.
You know this sounds like a spammers dream come true.
No no Mod parent up
I deal with this monster everyday and there is very little publicity about this contract. There needs to be more horror stories out in the press. NMCI forces MS on everything that touches that friggen network and all other Operating Systems are considered "legacy".
Official NCMI information site
.. UNIX/Linux machines would connect as
The and another
Bitching from a deckhand
legacy servers...
It is hardly specific it says "Striessand Estate"
Could be Billy Bob Striessand's Estate for all I know.
The Navy/Marine corp are launching a large scale contract (NMCI) that restricts all Navy IT to MS and MS solutions.
This contract locks down the network to only NMCI managed systems (MS only). If there are existing systems that cannot run under windows than you have to apply for a "legacy system" exception and pay extra for no service.
This one size fits all approach is short sighted and foolish. The upper echelon has yet to catch on that the network is the backbone or the infrastructure that enables an ever increasing plethora of monitoring systems, data acquisition and control systems, collabration and communication mechanisms, etc.
As more and more devices become Web enabled the Navy has effectively locked itself out in the cold and crawled in bed with built in obsolesce - not to mentioned left itself vulnerable to an attack or virus that would spead like wild fire in a homogeneous network.
I work for a Navy research lab and we use Linux, Perl, C, Apache, Mozilla, Gnome, Perl/Tk, GnuPlot, etc almost exclusively for our control and monitoring systems. We have had no difficulty controlling Opto22 devices, GPIB, RS422, R485, and one-wire devices. The only windows we use is on the desktop which is unfortunately mandated (see NMCI).
If you need real-time look into QNX.
BTW we operate what is probably the deepest running webserver. We have a vehicle monitoring system that is controlled via a Linux/Apache machine setting at depth reporting topside via fiber connection. This system controls power reports temperatures, pressures, inclination, depth, smoke, leak, etc.
You are forgetting the Novell development. It looks like SCO has no footing for sue anyone.
Also the question comes down to, are they claiming copyright, trademark, patent rights or trade secrets violation? SCO keeps changing the claim which cause me to believe they grasping at straws.
I have a couple questions...
If SCO revokes IBM license what does that mean for the future of AIX?
How will this effect IBM's support for Linux?
Reloaded was interesting film for special effects but the plot is lacking. It is easy to write a seemingly complex plot if you are not constrained by having to make sense and story line contraditions just add to the mystic. No doubt aspiring intellects will spend more cpu cycles debating various apsects of the plot and dialog than the original authors did.
Their "justice" system, giving justice just for rich white men
...and even the colo(u)rful language they've brutally raped.
The source of your information is... oh yes i forgot you saw the movie.
Their violency and their wars
They do teach history in the EU don't they? Or has it been "revised".
Their constitution
and your point is...
Their hypocrisy and their stupidity
So you must be French. If so please remember we have a few thousand Americans buried in French soil defending the land you could not.
(Disclaimer: No - I'm neither British nor Canadian. I do live in the EU, though)
You sound envious...
I what electronics package are they going to use to operate above the temperature of iron?
...that an out-of-state retailer is obligated to collect tax on sales to California customers if it has representatives operating in the state who repair or service property bought from the retailer; it has an ownership interest in a California business; or it sells the same products under the same name as the California business.
This only effects the big boys that have a physical presence in California. Interesting this give the ma and pa small e-commerce sites an advantage.
Why would anyone find this interesting? This is completely useless.
If I put a mp3 player in a toilet seat do I get to be on slashdot?
The emergence of Open Source Software phenomena is an interesting and hopeful commentary on humanity.
I think it can best be explained by Malsow pyramid or hierarchy of needs. Those toward the top of pyramid have an increasing desire to create. Also OSS provides a way to create without an artifical "leadership" or power structures that dominate almost all our other areas of living.
Also, the invention of the internet provided the basic infrastructure for like minded people to get together and create something greater than they could themselves providing a big payoff and providing a sense of community and friendship.
The Asian average is around 15 points higher than the White average.
Please provide references. I think you pulled that one out of someplace dark and damp.
hahahaha That was good! how come I never have moderation points when I need them.
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Still it is smaller and more compact than Java of today.
The linux::registery stuff is kinda of scary tho
Now back to work.
Yes, printers are mostly throw away these days. Also, notice that most (all?) printer manufactures have at any given time two dozen current models each which uses a different cartridge! And the printer you bought yesterday is now obsolete and the new models are just different and do not provide any descernable enhancements. It seems to me that it would alot easier to support a several printer models instead of several dozen. I think HP is the winner in this category.
In addition, I wish somebody would come up with a standardized cost-per-page printer metric, much like you find on kitchen appliances for energy consumption.
Perl is a mess
Perhaps I am twisted but I have always found Perl to do what I expect it to do.
I don't worry about man "playing god" but I do worry about humans acquiring technology before we are culturely advanced enough to reduce the possibility of wiping the human specicies of the map.
For example, suppose nuclear energy was discovered 50 years earlier in human history. There is a good chance that we would have destroyed the earth in one of the great wars of the last century.
It does not take alot of imagination to think all sorts of devious uses of custom life. What would a Saddam do if the technology was in his grasp.
Or does arabnew.com or AJ show the mangled bodies of innocent people (including children) of Palestinian sucide bomb victims.
You can't impose American free market orthodoxy on a country in this stage of development
No you are not going to create a new Kansas in the heartland of Iraq but it is possible to standup a reasonable representive democratic government. I present Germany, Japan, and Italy as examples where democracy and self-rule was instituted after the chaos of war.