Your summary is completely off, as it misses about four steps at the very beginning: first, a group of people started Linux Gazette. The publication took off, to the point where it generated more traffic than their original ISP would allow. They looked for a new site, and SSC offered to provide web hosting.
What this means is that SSC's trademark application is invalid: you can't own a name you didn't coin and you didn't buy.
Please, everyone, if you run a Linux-related site, link to linuxgazette.net using the link text "Linux Gazette". That way, Google will direct people to the real Linux Gazette when they do searches.
And yes, linuxgazette.net is the real Linux Gazette, as it consists of the original staff, publishing in the original form, and Linux Gazette existed before SSC offered to host it.
Also, everyone, if you subscribe to Linux Journal, please notify SSC that you will cancel your subscription they day they bring a legal action against the Linux Gazette staff.
SSC does not own the trademark. They are asserting that they own the trademark, but this won't wash, because the people who started Linux Gazette used that name before they had any relationship with SSC, and they never assigned that name to SSC. The person with the right to the trademark is the one that first used it.
Trustix and Mandrake already have fixes out. Also, the Debian announcement credits "the RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams" for figuring out that the brk() overflow hole was used.
Engineers will be able to continue the shrink for another 15 years based on what we know now. However, the cost for designing setting up manufacturing for a chip will continue to increase exponentially. It will only be worth the money to do this for a part that can be sold in the billions, and there will be few such parts. The end will come not because the technologists can't reduce feature sizes any further, but because no one will be willing to sink an investment equal to the GDP of a mid-sized country into a fab.
At least, that's the case for CMOS silicon chips. To get Moore's Law to continue to operate in a meaningful way, something completely new is likely to be needed: maybe molecular gates that self-assemble or something equally exotic.
This is incorrect: OpenBSD had a remote root compromise (the openssh bug). Furthermore, this particular exploit is not a remote root compromise, but a bug that allows a local user to get root, and OpenBSD has not been immune from this.
Hilbert's problem #6, asking for a proof of the Riemann conjecture, will now get you a
$1 million prize if you can solve it. Good luck, people have only been trying for 140 years.
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Any ISP of any size would have no difficulty showing that spammers cause more than $75K/year in damages.
Have one full-time person on staff to run your spam filtering operation? Your damage is roughly double this person's salary (cost of a full-time employee in the US is roughly double the salary after you figure in taxes, benefits, and overhead).
Prof. Moglen's article demonstrates that the only two code segments that SCO has been specific about are not copyright infringements at all, so it makes no difference whether SCO's Linux kernel contained them or not.
But the KDE and Gnome developers are unifying in many ways. For example, the KDE folks are adopting the Gnome accessibility framework for Qt/KDE 4, and both sides are working on resolving the interoperability problems.
The CSS-based redesign allows for multiple looks. Folks could choose Slashdot Classic, or something completely different, just by choosing a different style sheet. One page can give the user the choice of multiple styles.
Almost all Canon digital cameras work very well with Linux; you plug in the USB cable and go (provided that you've installed a gphoto2-based app such as gtkam or kamera). Some other brands don't work as well.
Digital cameras are actually an area where Linux does quite well (for some other devices it's a different story), and the Linux situation even has some advantages over the Windows situation. Consider the digital camera owner who visits a friend's house, and who brought her camera's USB cable. Can she upload her pictures to her friend's computer? If the friend runs Windows, probably not, if the friend has a different brand of digital camera. If the friend runs Linux, and it's one of the hundreds of supported camera models, it just works.
The Windows user could bring her software along as well and install it on the friend's computer, but this would violate the EULA and potentially subject her to prosecution!
I don't want digital camera makers to include binary-only drivers and put us in the same box that Windows users are in. Instead, they should document the protocol used on the USB cable, so that the gphoto2 people can add support
(gphoto2, despite the "g", is used by both KDE and Gnome apps to access digital cameras) . Better yet, they can submit source code to the gphoto2 people.
Unless they can make sure that it's not possible to profit by betting that an event will occur and then causing that event to occur, it could lead to damage. With the stock market, we have the SEC to prosecute folks for insider trading. With the futures market as Poindexter originally proposed it, a bin Laden type could buy futures on some type of terrorist attack, commit the attack, and then use the profits to fund more terror.
Find 119 friends. All 120 of you shave your heads,
tape a laser pointer to the side of your head, and say, in unison, "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."
The biggest difference is that France puts their power lines underground. Here in Silicon Valley, some French colleagues were shocked at the frequent power disruptions during the winter. Well, of course the power was out, the locals tell them, there was a big storm! (The "big storm" consists of an inch of rain and a short period of 40 mph winds, which knocks down all the power lines).
Answer: no installation problem because the user doesn't have to install it! Almost no one installs XP themselves.
Get a hardware partner. Sell boxes that have components selected that work optimally with Linux, pre-install and pre-configure the software, and make the desktop so beautiful (by appropriate choice of themes) that people who see the machine in stores have to have one.
The details of the config files do not matter.
Most users don't need to touch the config files directly. Let the users get to everything they need to change through the desktop, e.g. the "Start here" icon on Red Hat or Gnome systems or the equivalent if KDE is the choice. In any case, there isn't "continued divergence"; the LSB and freedesktop.org are helping to pull things together.
UserLinux is Debian-based, so apt is underneath. But that doesn't mean that anyone has to type apt-get on the command line unless they want to; give them an "Add/Remove Software" button like they have on a windows box, plus an easy way to add a new source to their sources.list if they want to add third-party software. Establish standards to help insure that qualified third-party sources won't conflict with each other.
China is no longer a Communist country. They are still a one-party oligarchy, but their current economic system has nothing to do with that of Marx, Lenin, or Mao. Some of its elements seem more like Italian Fascism than classic Russian or Maoist communism.
Why should you get something for nothing? Microsoft will now indemnify you in certain cases, but the maximum amount they will pay is the purchase price. So, no matter how much liability you are subject to, all you can get is a full refund.
The French decision is anti-free-speech and favors big companies over small companies. Why shouldn't lesser-known companies be able to buy an ad that alerts potential customers to the fact that the dominant player has competition? Similarly, consider generic drugs. If people selling the cheap drug can't let people searching by brand name that there is a cheaper alternative, this punishes the customer and props up a monopoly.
Besides, trademarks are overloaded. According to French logic, Apple Computer could stop an apple grower from placing an ad connected to the word "Apple" because it is a trademarked term.
Don't worry, European courts have produced plenty of whoppers of their own -- German lawyers going on trademark jihads concerning trademarks they don't even own (Mobilix); British courts making it illegal to tell anyone that some servant saw Prince Charles and another man doing the nasty (whoops, now Slashdot will have to be banned in the UK!); French courts ruling that Google can't let a competitor use the AdWords feature to attach an ad to a search that mentions a competitor's name -- I could go on and on.
Dogbert says: "I can predict the future by assuming that money and male hormones are the driving forces for new technology. Therefore when virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed."
The last frame is dated "Year 2004" and has a woman at the door asking Dogbert, "Is Dilbert available?" to which Dogbert replies, "He's been in the Holodeck since March."
Merriam-Webster uses the philosophy that they report actual usage and don't try decide what is "correct".
By giving this common alternate pronounciation they are not endorsing it.
On the other hand, "errors" in pronunciation often become standard use in the future. For example, it used to be that every letter in the word "knight" was pronounced: "gh" used to be like the German "ch", and the initial k was pronounced. Eventually people dropped the hard-to-pronounce sounds, but the spelling did not change. This kind of thing happened in other languages too, but the other modern Indo-European languages have done spelling reforms, to get spelling and sound to match up. English has not, so our spellings are historical relics.
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Your summary is completely off, as it misses about four steps at the very beginning: first, a group of people started Linux Gazette. The publication took off, to the point where it generated more traffic than their original ISP would allow. They looked for a new site, and SSC offered to provide web hosting.
What this means is that SSC's trademark application is invalid: you can't own a name you didn't coin and you didn't buy.
Please, everyone, if you run a Linux-related site, link to linuxgazette.net using the link text "Linux Gazette". That way, Google will direct people to the real Linux Gazette when they do searches.
And yes, linuxgazette.net is the real Linux Gazette, as it consists of the original staff, publishing in the original form, and Linux Gazette existed before SSC offered to host it.
Also, everyone, if you subscribe to Linux Journal, please notify SSC that you will cancel your subscription they day they bring a legal action against the Linux Gazette staff.
SSC does not own the trademark. They are asserting that they own the trademark, but this won't wash, because the people who started Linux Gazette used that name before they had any relationship with SSC, and they never assigned that name to SSC. The person with the right to the trademark is the one that first used it.
Trustix and Mandrake already have fixes out. Also, the Debian announcement credits "the RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams" for figuring out that the brk() overflow hole was used.
Engineers will be able to continue the shrink for another 15 years based on what we know now. However, the cost for designing setting up manufacturing for a chip will continue to increase exponentially. It will only be worth the money to do this for a part that can be sold in the billions, and there will be few such parts. The end will come not because the technologists can't reduce feature sizes any further, but because no one will be willing to sink an investment equal to the GDP of a mid-sized country into a fab.
At least, that's the case for CMOS silicon chips. To get Moore's Law to continue to operate in a meaningful way, something completely new is likely to be needed: maybe molecular gates that self-assemble or something equally exotic.
This is incorrect: OpenBSD had a remote root compromise (the openssh bug). Furthermore, this particular exploit is not a remote root compromise, but a bug that allows a local user to get root, and OpenBSD has not been immune from this.
Every serious Solaris user immediately downloads and installs lots of GNU tools.
Hilbert's problem #6, asking for a proof of the Riemann conjecture, will now get you a $1 million prize if you can solve it. Good luck, people have only been trying for 140 years.
Any ISP of any size would have no difficulty showing that spammers cause more than $75K/year in damages. Have one full-time person on staff to run your spam filtering operation? Your damage is roughly double this person's salary (cost of a full-time employee in the US is roughly double the salary after you figure in taxes, benefits, and overhead).
SCO has not yet established that any of their code is in Linux, and they won't be able to get an injunction against Novell without evidence.
Prof. Moglen's article demonstrates that the only two code segments that SCO has been specific about are not copyright infringements at all, so it makes no difference whether SCO's Linux kernel contained them or not.
But the KDE and Gnome developers are unifying in many ways. For example, the KDE folks are adopting the Gnome accessibility framework for Qt/KDE 4, and both sides are working on resolving the interoperability problems.
The CSS-based redesign allows for multiple looks. Folks could choose Slashdot Classic, or something completely different, just by choosing a different style sheet. One page can give the user the choice of multiple styles.
Almost all Canon digital cameras work very well with Linux; you plug in the USB cable and go (provided that you've installed a gphoto2-based app such as gtkam or kamera). Some other brands don't work as well.
Digital cameras are actually an area where Linux does quite well (for some other devices it's a different story), and the Linux situation even has some advantages over the Windows situation. Consider the digital camera owner who visits a friend's house, and who brought her camera's USB cable. Can she upload her pictures to her friend's computer? If the friend runs Windows, probably not, if the friend has a different brand of digital camera. If the friend runs Linux, and it's one of the hundreds of supported camera models, it just works.
The Windows user could bring her software along as well and install it on the friend's computer, but this would violate the EULA and potentially subject her to prosecution!
I don't want digital camera makers to include binary-only drivers and put us in the same box that Windows users are in. Instead, they should document the protocol used on the USB cable, so that the gphoto2 people can add support (gphoto2, despite the "g", is used by both KDE and Gnome apps to access digital cameras) . Better yet, they can submit source code to the gphoto2 people.
Unless they can make sure that it's not possible to profit by betting that an event will occur and then causing that event to occur, it could lead to damage. With the stock market, we have the SEC to prosecute folks for insider trading. With the futures market as Poindexter originally proposed it, a bin Laden type could buy futures on some type of terrorist attack, commit the attack, and then use the profits to fund more terror.
Find 119 friends. All 120 of you shave your heads, tape a laser pointer to the side of your head, and say, in unison, "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."
The biggest difference is that France puts their power lines underground. Here in Silicon Valley, some French colleagues were shocked at the frequent power disruptions during the winter. Well, of course the power was out, the locals tell them, there was a big storm! (The "big storm" consists of an inch of rain and a short period of 40 mph winds, which knocks down all the power lines).
Answer: no installation problem because the user doesn't have to install it! Almost no one installs XP themselves.
Get a hardware partner. Sell boxes that have components selected that work optimally with Linux, pre-install and pre-configure the software, and make the desktop so beautiful (by appropriate choice of themes) that people who see the machine in stores have to have one.
The details of the config files do not matter. Most users don't need to touch the config files directly. Let the users get to everything they need to change through the desktop, e.g. the "Start here" icon on Red Hat or Gnome systems or the equivalent if KDE is the choice. In any case, there isn't "continued divergence"; the LSB and freedesktop.org are helping to pull things together.
UserLinux is Debian-based, so apt is underneath. But that doesn't mean that anyone has to type apt-get on the command line unless they want to; give them an "Add/Remove Software" button like they have on a windows box, plus an easy way to add a new source to their sources.list if they want to add third-party software. Establish standards to help insure that qualified third-party sources won't conflict with each other.
China is no longer a Communist country. They are still a one-party oligarchy, but their current economic system has nothing to do with that of Marx, Lenin, or Mao. Some of its elements seem more like Italian Fascism than classic Russian or Maoist communism.
Why should you get something for nothing? Microsoft will now indemnify you in certain cases, but the maximum amount they will pay is the purchase price. So, no matter how much liability you are subject to, all you can get is a full refund.
Besides, trademarks are overloaded. According to French logic, Apple Computer could stop an apple grower from placing an ad connected to the word "Apple" because it is a trademarked term.
Don't worry, European courts have produced plenty of whoppers of their own -- German lawyers going on trademark jihads concerning trademarks they don't even own (Mobilix); British courts making it illegal to tell anyone that some servant saw Prince Charles and another man doing the nasty (whoops, now Slashdot will have to be banned in the UK!); French courts ruling that Google can't let a competitor use the AdWords feature to attach an ad to a search that mentions a competitor's name -- I could go on and on.
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon:
Dogbert says: "I can predict the future by assuming that money and male hormones are the driving forces for new technology. Therefore when virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed."
The last frame is dated "Year 2004" and has a woman at the door asking Dogbert, "Is Dilbert available?" to which Dogbert replies, "He's been in the Holodeck since March."
Merriam-Webster uses the philosophy that they report actual usage and don't try decide what is "correct". By giving this common alternate pronounciation they are not endorsing it.
On the other hand, "errors" in pronunciation often become standard use in the future. For example, it used to be that every letter in the word "knight" was pronounced: "gh" used to be like the German "ch", and the initial k was pronounced. Eventually people dropped the hard-to-pronounce sounds, but the spelling did not change. This kind of thing happened in other languages too, but the other modern Indo-European languages have done spelling reforms, to get spelling and sound to match up. English has not, so our spellings are historical relics.